went down again last summer along with the economy. but particularly these lastix months, income growth has bee strong. if y tal the polal nt they will tell you that the trend is important as level. people have been feeling they have more money in their pocketbooks than before. >> first of all, a sharp decline which tells you why things were so bad politically for president obama,or everyone else. andhen turpwar is sharp as well. >> yeah. i think we want to put a caveat on all of this, as you said, there's a lot of sluggish economic indicates, unemployment, gdp,o on. again, i think the pception of a lot of people is the trend is what is impot, as much as anyt, d th ts tyood. he one that is important to individuals, house prices. we had a massive slide in house prices going back to well before president obama was put in office. and we had a few upward bump as long the way. but just this year, and this may d vrpuprd bumph here, we' the largest rise in house prices year over year in two years, 5.6% so far this year. i think a growing sens